Toy steam-shovel



ZIPF. TOY STEAM SHOVEL. APPLICATION FILED FEB.H,1920.

@Hom/Lew M11/JS PATENT OFFICE.

CARL F. Z'IPIE, OF JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

. TOY STEAM-snovur..

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1920.

Application filed February 11, 1920. Serial No. 357,809.

To all whom t may concern.' i

Be it known that I, CARL F. Zrrr, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Johnstown, Cambria county, State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Steam- Shovels,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in mechanical toys arranged tosimulate a steam shovel by reason of the fact that I employ incombination with a movable beam, arranged to move upwardly anddownwardly radially, the representation of an engine and boiler together'with a [1y-wheel arranged to move in `unison with the beam. To renderthe toy attractive and interesting, I have arranged it so that the beamwill remove marbles one at a time, from a magazine and deposit same, oneat a time upon a table or other support upon which the toy may beplaced.- The beam is arranged to automatically select one marble at atime, and no more. from the magazine. My improved toy is desirable, ischeaply manufactured, and unique in action` and will afford greatamusement for children.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, the novelfeatures of which I will finally claim, reference being had to theaccompanying` drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of myinvention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view, illustrating thedelivery end of the magazine and the receiving end of the beam;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of the magazine;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the receiving end of the beam; and

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view. the section being taken on a line5-5 in Fig. 1.

As herein embodied. my invention consists of the representation of anengine and boiler including a fly-wheel. gears, etc., and an engineer incharge. The above mentioned member of the toy will be a picture orlithograph cut out and will be pasted or otherwise applied to arelatively thin sheet of cardboard, metal, etc., indicated by 6 in Fig.5. The fly wheel 7 will be movable, that is to say, rotatable, andduring the operation of the toy, will partly rotate to the right andleft alternately under the iniiuence of a beam 8, which is connected toa pulley 9, carried by the shaft 10 for the iiy-' wheel and the saidbeam. To connect the pulley 9 and beam 8, I employ a belt or cord 11,which at its ends is connected to the beam 8 and around the pulley 9intermediate its ends. rlhe support for the cardboard or metal backingfor the picture or lithograph consists of a post 12 which is secured tothe backing 6 in any desirable manner. Intermediate its ends the post l2is bent to form a yoke 13 within which the pulley 9 is located. Theshaft 10 at one end is supported by an eye 14k formed in the memberl ofthe yoke 13. Intermediate its ends shaft 10 is supported by the backing6. As can be seen in Fig. 5, the fly-wheel 7 is located eX- teriorly ofthe backing member 6. The beam S is pivotally supported by one of theend members of the yoke, in this instance end member 15. The beam 8 ismade in channel formation, one end of which is slightly dished as at 16,the other end being provided with a weight 17.

A further element of the toy consists of a channeled magazine 18 toretain spheres or marbles 19. The beam removes the spheres or marblesone by one and deposits same upon a table or other support. In thisinstance the marbles are illustrated as being deposited upon a table 20.

As can be seen, the magazine is slightly inclined in order that thespheres or marbles will tend to roll toward the delivery end 21 adjacentto which I locate an opening 22 to receive the marbles or rather toprevent same from rolling out of the magazine. then a marble is placedin the magazine it will roll toward the end 21 and iinally settle in theopening 22 (see Fig. 2). From this position the marbles are removed, bythe beam 8, one by one. To remove the marbles one by one, the beam 8,adjacent the dished end, is provided with a knockout finger 23, which isstamped out of the material of the dished end of the beam, as indicatedin Fig. 2. The opening 22 is located in the path of movement of thefinger 23 and as the beam approaches the end of its upward stroke thefinger 23 will pass into the said opening 22. The end 21 of the magazinelimits the upward stroke of the beam, the downward stroke being limitedby the table or other support 2O for the toy. The weight 17 will besufficient to raise the delivery end of the beam, while the weight of asphere or marble will overbalance the weight 1-7 and lower said beam atthe delivery end. Y lsupposing the magazine to be filled with `spheresormarbles 19, to start the device a marble will be placed in the dishedreceiver 16, after which the beam lwill lowerv forced out of the openingby said finger, and

the finger will lie between the first and second marbles at the deliveryend of the magazine, as indicated in Fig. 1. As soon as the first marblehas been forced out of the opening 22, it will roll onto the dishedreceiver 16 of the beam and said beam will lower. This operationwillcontinue until all of the marbles have been removed from the magazine.During the movement of the beam the fly wheel 7 will have impartedthereto a partial rotation to correspond with the movement of the beam;hence'the beam will appear as though actuated by power. The post 12 willbe carried by a base-member 24 whichl will support thewhole structure.

VHaving now described my invention, what claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is Vl. In a mechanical toy, an angularly disposedmagazine to contain spherical elements and having an opening adjacentthe lower'end thereof to engage the spheres to p revent same fromrolling out of the magazine, a gravity operated beam to remove thespheres one by one from the magazine, and means carried by the gravityoperated beam, at the receiving end, to displace the spheres from theopening in the magazine, and causeA Y rial representation of an same toroll onto said beam when said gravity operated beam is brought intoposition to receive a sphererfrom said magazine.

" 2. In a mechanical toy, an angularly disposedmagazine to containspherical elements and having an opening adjacent one end thereof toengage said spherical elements to prevent same from rolling out of saidmagazine, a pivotally mounted gravity operated beam adjacent themagazine arranged to remove the spherical elements from said magazineone by one, and a linger carried by said beam at the receiving end,arranged to enter said opening and displace the sphere held thereby andcause same to `roll onto the receiving end of the beam.

3. In a mechanical toy, intermediate its ends into member' connected tothe a support formed a yoke, a backing support, a pictoengine carried bythe backing member', a rotatable shaft supported at one end by saidsupport at the yoke portion thereof, said shaft being supportedintermediate its ends by said backing member, a fly wheelfcarri'ed bythe shaft at the opposite end, a pulley carried by the Shaft located'within said yoke, a gravity operated beam pivotally supportedintermediate its ends by one of the end members of said yoke, and a beltsecured to the beam and engaging said pulley, all arranged so.that thefly wheel will have imparted thereto rotary motion to correspond withthe direction of movement of the beam.

Signed at Johnstown, Pa., this 9th day of February, 1920.

CARL F. ZIPF.

Witnesses T. C. MILLER,

JOSE Hn'rzLEIN.

